1972
- 01/01/72 T.Rex
- 08/01/72 Family Curved Air Fleetwood Mac
- 15/01/72 Cat Stevens
- 22/01/72 T.Rex
- 29/01/72 The Rolling Stones
- 05/02/72 Marc Bolan (the first issue of the NME's transformation into a more contemporary rock weekly)
- 12/02/72 Chuck Berry
- 19/02/72 Joe Cocker
- 26/02/72 Humble Pie, and Viv Stanshall
- 04/03/72 Neil Young
- 11/03/72 Marc Bolan
- 18/03/72 Steve Marriott of Humble Pie
- 25/03/72 T.Rex
- 01/04/72 Stephen Stills, and Manassas
- 08/04/72 Joe Cocker
- 15/04/72 The Beach Boys
- 22/04/72 The Rolling Stones
- 29/04/72 T.Rex
- 06/05/72 T.Rex
- 13/05/72 Rod Stewart of The Faces
- 20/05/72 Mick Jagger, and Wishbone Ash
- 27/05/72 Janis Joplin, and The Beach Boys
- 03/06/72 Joe Cocker
- 10/06/72 Maggie Bell
- 17/06/72 The Rolling Stones
- 24/06/72 T.Rex
- 01/07/72 Jethro Tull
- 08/07/72 Paul McCartney–Wings
- 15/07/72 David Bowie
- 22/07/72 Hawkwind
- 29/07/72 Ten Years After
- 05/08/72 Rod Stewart
- 12/08/72 Stephen Stills
- 19/08/72 Alice Cooper
- 26/08/72 Marc Bolan
- 02/09/72 Slade
- 09/09/72
- 16/09/72 Elvis Presley, and Mott the Hoople
- 23/09/72 Free
- 30/09/72 John Lennon
- 07/10/72 Ten Years After
- 14/10/72 Hawkwind, and Alice Cooper
- 21/10/72 Curved Air
- 28/10/72 David Cassidy
- 04/11/72 T.Rex
- 11/11/72 Led Zeppelin
- 18/11/72 Faces
- 25/11/72 Family
- 02/12/72 Chuck Berry
- 09/12/72 Slade
- 16/12/72 The Who
- 23/12/72 The Rolling Stones
- 30/12/72 Jimi Hendrix
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